From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261188AbULDW4J (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:56:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261189AbULDW4I (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:56:08 -0500 Received: from ns1.g-housing.de ([62.75.136.201]:27839 "EHLO mail.g-house.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261188AbULDWzx (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Dec 2004 17:55:53 -0500 Message-ID: <41B24076.7090804@g-house.de> Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 23:55:50 +0100 From: Christian Kujau User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Re: network console References: <41A78D0A.5060308@pbl.ca> <41A7E8AD.9050405@g-house.de> <41AB31FD.2030501@pbl.ca> In-Reply-To: <41AB31FD.2030501@pbl.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Aleksandar Milivojevic schrieb: > > Not exactly what I had in mind, but having kernel printk messages sent > to remote host will be helpfull too. What I had in mind was actually > having two-way fully functional network console (something I could also > use to log onto the machine, say if I screw up firewall settings and > lock myself out). that would require an additional and "secure-by-default" device, otherwise your firewall would be superfluous. - - serial console - - setup just another ethX next to your other ethernetdevices and make it a point-to-point connection to your machine. isdn/ppp dial-in with authentication will also do here. i hope i got your point.... - -- BOFH excuse #441: Hash table has woodworm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBskB1+A7rjkF8z0wRAhPhAKCtsfEDYemUeFpsWgalb1jCZfBvEwCgoHW0 BYGc4vk3xI3bVLnagmc1B7U= =vvN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----